What this is about. When I was in grade school, I had a set of painted toy soldiers. While my friends had the anonymous green plastic bazooka guys that you could buy at that time, I had dozens of colorful Polish toy soldiers obtained on multiple family trips back to Poland, and each time we […]
Entries Tagged as 'Battlefront'
Decade Feature – 2000: Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
November 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Battlefront, Feature:Decade, Wargames
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Histwar: Les Grognards Dropped By Battlefront
November 5th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Battlefront, Indie Games, Industry, Napoleonics, Wargames
I can’t say I blame them. Histwar, an ambitious Napoleonic strategy/wargame, has been in development forever and it says something about the state of independent publishing that Battlefront stuck it out this long. I do hope the game gets finished, of course, and that it is good. But all it would take is one or […]
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Theatre of War Mod Pack Available
June 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on Theatre of War Mod Pack Available · Battlefront, WW2
I hope to have more to say about Theatre of War 2 soon – I think I’ve solved most of performance issues with it, and there’s a lot of good things (and some bad) to say about it. But 1C and Battlefront is now going in whole hog with the mod support for the first […]
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New Histwar Screenshots
May 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Battlefront
The updates on Histwar: Les Grognards come so rarely, that I was genuinely surprised to get one in my email.It’s been in development forever, but apparently it’s finally in beta. Battlefront has uploaded some new screenshots of the Napoleon themed game, and it doesn’t look as good as Empire: Total War. The faces look especially […]
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Theatre of War 2 Is Killing My Patience
May 14th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Battlefront, Wargames
Is it supposed to be this slow? The opening battle in Theatre of War 2‘s American campaign has you holding off advancing German troops. It’s pretty straightforward, and not all that difficult. Get your guns pointed in the right direction, use your small armor force as a fireman unit to stop any vehicles that get […]
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Combat Mission (2000)
May 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Battlefront, Feature:Map, WW2
What this is about In spite of the underwhelming Combat Mission: Shockforce, it is fair to say that the Combat Mission series remains one of the best and most important wargame franchises in PC gaming history. It used 3D terrain and simultaneous movement to make an even then too familiar World War II setting come […]
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